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There is a Windmill in Brixton! It...

There is a Windmill in Brixton!

It was built in 1816 and still standing in Blenheim Garden (just near the rather good, if slightly scanky, pub of the same name)

Long. -0.12081, Lat. 51.45619 | written on 15th Aug 2005 by Richard Pope | Email this to a friend | abusive?

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John replies: Ashby's mIll and windmill, Brixton Hill.
http://www.brixtonwindmill.org/

Built in 1826 and leased by the miller, John Ashby, it was in use, and managed by the same family, until 1934.

Later purchased by London County Council and opened as Windmill Gardens in 1962, it is located close to the Blenheim Gardens housing estates.

You have placed the windmill in the wrong location on the Google Map.

Here is the correct location at the end of:
http://tinyurl.com/atwt2 or more detailed here:
http://tinyurl.com/c7p6k
http://www.brixtonwindmill.org/map16.htm

written 17th Sep 2005 | abusive?

Keith Bower replies: Spent many an afternoon at the park as a 6-7 year old. My grandparents lived on Lyham Road. I could walk to the park making only right hand turns - therefore no major roads to cross. Their house was on the prison side of Lyham Road. There was a Bowaters (?) lorry yard on the opposite side of the road, between their house and the prison. I remember a fenced off, bomb damaged house opposite theirs. It was still there in the 1960's.

written 19th Oct 2006 | abusive?

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